The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-01
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.
Premier Crispi, OF Italy, was a pri-
vate in Garibaldi's GLORIOUS thousand"
Professor Lucy M. Salmon, the new
occupant Of the Chair of History at Vas
sar, graduated from Michigan University
eleven years ago and began teaching in
Iowa. She has made her way steadily to
the front.
The widow of Ezekiel Webster, an
elder brother of Daniel Webster, was
born with the century, but she reads all
the current literature, hears well, and
converees with great intelligence on the
current topics of the day.
Mr.. Gross, of Westerly, r. T., whose
wife is Vanderbilt, has the old kitchen
clock which Commodore Vanderbilts
mother used as savings-bauk and from
which she took the 500 of hard-earned
money which gave Cornelius his start in
life and was the beginning of the Van
derbilt millions. 1t is rare old treas.
ure.
MIR. Moody's idea of the demorali-
zing influence OF the Sunday newspapers
was expressed with unique emphasis
few days since when he declared in New
York, after wide observation in the mat
ter, "You can't pound sermon into
man with sledge hammer after he has
got through reading one of those Sunday
newspapers" presbyterian
Most of the modern Popes, says
st. Jdmes's Gazette have been ascetics,
and Leo XIII. is no exception to the rule.
His Holiness rises at o'clock alike in
summer and in winter; and Immediately
he is dressed he says mass in his private
chapel. Then he "assists" at another
mass celebrated by a prelate of the
household, and at seven he breakfasts
Mrs Gould, rich widow of Califor
MIA, recently resolved to disinherit her
daughter, because of her elopement. Soon
afterwsrd she learned that the parents of
the groom had closed their doors against
the young couple, she became angry at
this, declaring that her daughter was as
good as any woman on earth, and conclu-
ded by forgiving all, presenting the bride
and groom with comfortable share of
her home and fortune.
One Of the Stuart Kings of Eng
land asked the release of number OF
Huguenots, who were languishing in the
Bastile for no offense but their religion.
"What would your master say" retort-
ed the French king, "if were to ask the
release Of the criminals he keeps under
lock and key in Newgate?" "He would
let you have every man OF them il you
claimed them as brethren" was the clev-
or retort OF the English ambassador.
Hugh Whittell, a Forty miner, who
died few days ago at Alameda, CAL, at
the age OF seventy-seven years, erected
his own monument some years ago. It
is splendid marble shaft, bearing his
name and the date OF his birth and death
and this epitaph: " He Travelled over
the First Railway Ever Built in England,
and Crossed the Atlantic in the First
Steamship that Ever Ploughed the Ocean.
He Explored Many Lands and Died in
the Fulness of the Faith. Amen"
KING Humbert, OF Italy, has always
been an abstainer from liquors and al
most a total sbstamer from wine. He
has smoked cigars quite freely il not ex-
cessively. About three months ago he
noticed that something in his habits was
hurting his health. Physicians said it
was the cigars and limited at more mod
GRAFTON. The K ng at once declared
against all use of tobacco and has done
no smoking since. His health has shown
gratifying improvement.
George Macdonald, the famous
British novelist, poet and preacher, is a
man 63 years of age, though he does not
look more than 40. He derives hand.
some income from thirty volumes OF nov
els and nine volumes of poetry. He re-
ceives an annual pension of $500 from
the Queens civil list as a compliment to
his literary ability. AS a preacher he
has high reputation. HIS delivery is
most impressive and his discourses are
both scholarly and broad-minded.
The late Richard Jefferies, author
of The Game-keepsr at Home" was an
occasional contributor to Mr.. Edmund
Yates's World, and that journal give
this account of him: A man of middle
age, his tall and almost gaunt figure clad
in loose coat, the pale and transparent
complexion of his strongly marked and
handsome features, and the fine texture
of his hair and of his long brown beard,
were suggestive of frail organization;